IMF Online Learning

This course, delivered by staff from the Fiscal Affairs Department, provides an overview of Public Financial Management (PFM), and how PFM supports macroeconomic stability, economic growth, and achievement of the SDGs.

The course provides an introduction to Financial Programming and Policies. It presents the principal features of the macroeconomic accounts (real, fiscal, external, and monetary) and the interrelations among them. Available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

The course builds on the FPP.1x course by presenting simple forecasting methods for each sector of the macroeconomy; diagnosis of macroeconomic performance under baseline assumptions; and preparation of a macroeconomic adjustment program for a case study country.

This six-week course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of debt sustainability analysis and a medium-term debt management strategy framework as performed by the IMF and the World Bank. A shorter version of the course, with a focus on low-income countries, is offered in French.

This four-week course builds on an extensive cross-country analysis, which is reported notably in the IMF book on "Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications," to make recommendations on how to best implement reforms aimed at reducing state subsidies on energy.

This course strengthens participants' macroeconometric forecasting & modeling skills through the application of standard statistical techniques. Lectures include a discussion of underlying theory & demonstrations of how to conduct empirical analyses using EViews.

This seven-week course introduces participants to the fundamentals of financial analysis that are part of the toolkit of policymakers. These tools are used to study the characteristics of various financial instruments and their pricing, and to analyze portfolios of assets and the basics of risk management.

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IMF MOOCs

The IMF has partnered with edX, the nonprofit online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to offer online training. With this partnership, and with generous financial support from the Government of Japan, the Fund is able to expand the reach of its training program to member country officials and to offer access to its training courses to a wider public audience through massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Reach of Online Learning

Since the launch of the program in late 2013, online courses have attracted over 42,000 active participants. Of those close to 12,600 government officials and almost 11,000 members of the general public from 192 countries have successfully completed an online course. By this measure, the program is achieving its dual goals of sharing knowledge with the general public and significantly scaling up the volume of training to member country officials.